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What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media — I was reading a Goldman Sachs research report on the radio business on the plane back from Australia. I came across this chart of EBITDA multiples versus EBITA growth rates for various media categories. — There's not a ton of insight …
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CES Live: Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba start recycling program — Panasonic threw down the first green gauntlet of the day. — The company announced that it will team up with Sharp and Toshiba to create a joint venture recycling company to provide recycling services for all of the companies' products.
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Panasonic, Sharp, and Toshiba form recycling partnership — We surprisingly haven't heard a ton about green(er) tech at this year's CES, but there's still some news going down — and Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba have just announced that they've formed a new joint venture …
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The Technology Chronicles
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CES: Panasonic, Toshiba, Sharp In Venture On Recycling — At a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this morning, Panasonic announced that it has formed a joint venture with Sharp and Toshiba to focus on recycling old consumer electronics products.
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How Techmeme Homepage Changes Over Time - Video — It's amazing to see how blog stories make it to the Techmeme homepage, stay there for a couple of minutes (or hours) and then get replaced by fresh news. — The following video clip captures 50 hours of Techmeme activity and replays it in 50 seconds.
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Information overload in the Facebook-ABC presidential debates? — MANCHESTER, N.H.—It sounded like a good idea at first: Let Internet users be part of, virtually speaking, the Democratic and Republican presidential debates on Saturday evening by posting comments on a special Facebook message board.
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Amazon launches software downloads — Online retailer Amazon has launched a software download section. And when we say launched, we mean, they've built a software downloader application which you can currently use to download a handful of products from TurboTax.
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Mashable!
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CES Live: LG announces mobile digital TV — LG Electronics kicked off the press conference day at CES, bright and early at 8 am. Its newest offering: digital TV while you're on the move. That means you can watch TV while driving. More on that to come. — The South Korean electronics giant has had a good ride in North America.
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LG MPH TV-Everywhere Coming to North America in 2009
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The Technology Chronicles
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Sharp Announces New TVs With Aquos Net Widgets/Services — We're here, baby. The conference starts at noon PST. Until then, were just chewing away at our Venetian boxed lunches while scoping out Sharp's 20mm, 100,000:1 contrast LCD we saw back at IFA. We still want one. Hit the jump for updates.
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CES gadgets: Netgear shows 15 new networking products for an “all access” home — According to International Data Corp., there are 34.4 million homes with computer networks now. Of those, 12.4 million have Internet access for non-PC devices in the living room, such as game consoles.
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The Five Members of the Techmeme Family (so what are you?) — I've been an avid follower of Techmeme since Dec 2005, when Scoble evangelized it to me while I was working in Santa Clara at HDS. Ever since, I've been watching with great interest on how it changed, evolved, and content was added to it.
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CES Live: Pioneer shows off razor-thin plasma TV — The battle of the display claims has begun. — Pioneer Electronics has some stirring claims. Its newest Kuro brand plasma TV is merely 9 millimeters thick, or thinner than a cell phone and thinner than last month's Wired magazine.
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Toshiba ‘disappointed’ over Warner Bros. decision — LAS VEGAS—"Disappointed" probably isn't a strong enough word to describe when a major focus of your business plan and the highlight of your Consumer Electronics Show pitch is derailed two days before by one of your former partners.
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Fujitsu's Fabric PC and Three Other Forward-Looking Concepts — Fujitsu just unveiled a few futuristic concept gadgets, the most interesting of which is probably a fabric laptop. Sure, there's no word on just how they'll make a computer that's “soft, pliable, and can comfortably be carried …
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Fujitsu intros a handful of concept designs at CES 2008
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Vizio announces 30 HDTV models — I'm going to save you the shenenigans and snark by just pasting what Vizio sent us. Essentially, they've got 32-inch plasmas for $689 and 50-inchers for $1,399 — 1080p, naturally — and a few new surround sound systems and LCDs.
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Hands-on with Panasonic's new HDC-SD9 1080p camcorder — We managed to squeeze in and get our grubby mitts all over Panasonic's newest entry to the HD camcorder market, the HDC-SD9... and it was sweet. We're not sure if the pictures can do it justice, but this thing is super tiny.
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